mcmnky:Gunderson: Ones I remember off hand (original artist in parenthesis)

Hard to Handle -The Black Crowes (Otis Redding)

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

skinink:I like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, but haven't a majority of their songs been covers? Not that I care, I like cover albums. I like "Diver Down" by Van Halen and "The Spaghetti Incident?" by GnR.

Seeing as you're from Boston, maybe you'll appreciate this one as well.

Hoopy Frood:Paul Young's #1 "Everytime You Go Away" was a cover of a Hall & Oates album cut from 1980.

bingo. truly one of their finest songs evah, it's farking beautiful.

-- don't mind a good cover. it's when the cover blows dog i'm less than thrilled. if you can't at least keep up GTFO the way. those arseholes should have to answer for what they did at the end of awards shows, and apologize for their stupid.

When Ike & Tina Turner's cover of "Proud Mary" first hit the AM radio, I hadn't heard the CCR original. When I finally did hear it, many months later... well, it was just about the lamest thing I'd ever heard.

Angry Buddha:The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

AcesFull:Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

mcmnky:Gunderson: Ones I remember off hand (original artist in parenthesis)

Hard to Handle -The Black Crowes (Otis Redding)

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

/true story

Grateful Dead have a few live versions, notably from " Bear's Choice Vol 1"(1970) and Ladies and Gentlemen , The Grateful Dead(1971) that just slay.

Angry Buddha:AcesFull: Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

Angry Buddha:The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

AcesFull:Angry Buddha: AcesFull: Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

Hoopy Frood:AcesFull: Angry Buddha: AcesFull: Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

Hoopy Frood:AcesFull: Angry Buddha: AcesFull: Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

/true storyGrateful Dead have a few live versions, notably from " Bear's Choice Vol 1"(1970) and Ladies and Gentlemen , The Grateful Dead(1971) that just slay.

I love the Dead. Not been-to-hundreds of shows love, but been-to-dozens of shows love. Have-a-dancing-bear-tattoo love.

I cannot bare (or bear) their Hard to Handle covers. It's the same story as with the Crowes. I liked them until I heard the Otis version. Unlike the Crowes, I still listen to the Dead. Maybe because Hard to Handle was the first Black Crowes song I heard, I've never been able to appreciate anything they've done.

I feel like I'm turning into Seymour from Ghost World. It's not just cover versions. I listen to current electric guitar "blues," and it's like spoiled milk to my ears. Stuff I really liked a few years ago, and now I can't stand.

Pretty much the only post-Hendrix electric blues I like these days in Stevie Ray, though I'm anticipating the days when even SRV doesn't sound good to me. The original stuff pre-WWII and second and third generations (post-WWII through the early '70s) are just so damn good.

Again, I love the Dead. I love almost all their covers. (Dancin' in the Streets is another dud to my ears.) When you can have Otis, why settle for anything else?

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

/true storyGrateful Dead have a few live versions, notably from " Bear's Choice Vol 1"(1970) and Ladies and Gentlemen , The Grateful Dead(1971) that just slay.

I love the Dead. Not been-to-hundreds of shows love, but been-to-dozens of shows love. Have-a-dancing-bear-tattoo love.

I cannot bare (or bear) their Hard to Handle covers. It's the same story as with the Crowes. I liked them until I heard the Otis version. Unlike the Crowes, I still listen to the Dead. Maybe because Hard to Handle was the first Black Crowes song I heard, I've never been able to appreciate anything they've done.

I feel like I'm turning into Seymour from Ghost World. It's not just cover versions. I listen to current electric guitar "blues," and it's like spoiled milk to my ears. Stuff I really liked a few years ago, and now I can't stand.

Pretty much the only post-Hendrix electric blues I like these days in Stevie Ray, though I'm anticipating the days when even SRV doesn't sound good to me. The original stuff pre-WWII and second and third generations (post-WWII through the early '70s) are just so damn good.

Again, I love the Dead. I love almost all their covers. (Dancin' in the Streets is another dud to my ears.) When you can have Otis, why settle for anything else?

Jagger and Bowie shoulda been kneecapped for what they did to Dancing in the Streets...

/and in a weird bit of whatever, in 1970, Miller covered Tall Tall Trees, which was originally released by George Jones in 1958, although the song was co-written by the both of them. But Alan Jackson was the only one to have a hit with it.

chitownmike:Angry Buddha: The Clash's "I Fought the Law" outshines the original (and previous covers) by light years. Why Green Day thought they could subsequently even strum a farking chord of that song is baffling.

m.youtube.com/watch?client=mv-google&hl=en&gl=US&v=jbCqwl2geQg

You are wrong!

Haha! Ok. I'm a DK fan, but I consider this an appropriation more than a cover.

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

/true storyGrateful Dead have a few live versions, notably from " Bear's Choice Vol 1"(1970) and Ladies and Gentlemen , The Grateful Dead(1971) that just slay.

I love the Dead. Not been-to-hundreds of shows love, but been-to-dozens of shows love. Have-a-dancing-bear-tattoo love.

I cannot bare (or bear) their Hard to Handle covers. It's the same story as with the Crowes. I liked them until I heard the Otis version. Unlike the Crowes, I still listen to the Dead. Maybe because Hard to Handle was the first Black Crowes song I heard, I've never been able to appreciate anything they've done.

I feel like I'm turning into Seymour from Ghost World. It's not just cover versions. I listen to current electric guitar "blues," and it's like spoiled milk to my ears. Stuff I really liked a few years ago, and now I can't stand.

Pretty much the only post-Hendrix electric blues I like these days in Stevie Ray, though I'm anticipating the days when even SRV doesn't sound good to me. The original stuff pre-WWII and second and third generations (post-WWII through the early '70s) are just so damn good.

Again, I love the Dead. I love almost all their covers. (Dancin' in the Streets is another dud to my ears.) When you can have Otis, why settle for anything else?

Jagger and Bowie shoulda been kneecapped for what they did to Dancing in the Streets...

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I wish I had your happiness, and you had a do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do.

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I don't know if Miller's version counts as a cover. Kristofferson wrote the song, Miller sang it first in 1969, then Kris sang it later in 1969.

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I don't know if Miller's version counts as a cover. Kristofferson wrote the song, Miller sang it first in 1969, then Kris sang it later in 1969.

I figured Miller's was the original, even though Kristofferson wrote it and later performed it.

Joplin's version was third or fourth in line.

And speaking of Kristofferson, his original version of Sunday Morning Coming Down was the superior version, but Johnny Cash's was the famous version.

/If Cash had done it closer to Kristofferson's version, without that damn orchestra in the background, they would have been equal.

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I don't know if Miller's version counts as a cover. Kristofferson wrote the song, Miller sang it first in 1969, then Kris sang it later in 1969.

From what I read Kristofferson didn't know Joplin recorded the song until he heard it on the radio. Joplin version was a cover.

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I don't know if Miller's version counts as a cover. Kristofferson wrote the song, Miller sang it first in 1969, then Kris sang it later in 1969.

From what I read Kristofferson didn't know Joplin recorded the song until he heard it on the radio. Joplin version was a cover.

4 H and an FFA.on a field trip to the farmme and a friend sneak off behind this old barnwhere we uncovered this covered up moonshine stilland we thought we'd drunk our fillwell I swallowed it with a smile mmm..I run ten mile....chug-a-lug-chug-a-lug

I don't know if Miller's version counts as a cover. Kristofferson wrote the song, Miller sang it first in 1969, then Kris sang it later in 1969.

I figured Miller's was the original, even though Kristofferson wrote it and later performed it.

Joplin's version was third or fourth in line.

And speaking of Kristofferson, his original version of Sunday Morning Coming Down was the superior version, but Johnny Cash's was the famous version.

/If Cash had done it closer to Kristofferson's version, without that damn orchestra in the background, they would have been equal.

A) One of my favorite songsB) You are correct. Cash never got a handle on the song.

"Sex Shooter" was originally recorded by Vanity 6, but Vanity and Prince stopped talking, split up, and went their separate ways. Apollonia was brought in, the group became Apollonia 6, and they recorded the song for the movie "Purple Rain" and their own album.

"Nothing Compares 2 U" was one of the songs Prince wrote for The Family, one of his project groups (like The Time, Apollonia 6, Vanity 6, etc.) He wrote their music and lyrics, they performed. They never took off, so Warner Bros. & Prince let the song be recorded by Sinaed, and it was a hit based on her strong vocals, the very popular video, and the fact that they advertised it as a Prince song at the height of Prince's career. Prince finally recorded it himself on "The Hits/The B-Sides" and it was, of course, the best version of them all.

From what I read Kristofferson didn't know Joplin recorded the song until he heard it on the radio. Joplin version was a cover.

Wasn't Kristofferson and Joplin farking around that time?

Better than that, Dylan hearing "Love is just a four letter word" sung by Janis Ian. He told Ian it was a damn good song, and Ian said "It should be. You wrote it". Dylan had completely forgotten writing it.